Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9781390902785

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Excerpt from Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 1 of 3 E highest ambition of an editor should be to pass un noticed. But an editor of these Essays gives too many openings for censure to be warranted in such an expectation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 5 (Classic Reprint)
Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780428941314

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Excerpt from Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 3 of 5 The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. A New Edition. By basil montagu, Esq. 16 vols., 8vc. London: 1825 - 1834. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Frances Burney’s “Evelina”
Frances Burney’s “Evelina”

Author: Svetlana Kochkina

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-04-12

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 3031177975

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Evelina, the first novel by Frances Burney, published in 1778, enjoys lasting popularity among the reading public. Tracing its publication history through 174 editions, adaptations, and reprints, many of them newly discovered and identified, this book demonstrates how the novel’s material embodiment in the form of the printed book has been reshaped by its publishers, recasting its content for new generations of readers. Four main chapters vividly describe how during 240 years, Evelina, a popular novel of manners, metamorphosed without any significant alterations to its text into a Regency “rambling” text, a romantic novel for “lecteurs délicats,” a cheap imprint for circulating libraries, a yellow-back, a book with a certain aesthetic cachet, a Christmas gift-book, finally becoming an integral part of the established literary canon in annotated scholarly editions. This book also focuses on the remodelling and transformation of the paratext in this novel, written by a woman author, by the heavily male-dominated publishing industry. Shorter Entr’acte sections discuss and describe alterations in the forms of Burney’s name and the title of her work, the omission and renaming of her authorial prefaces, and the redeployment of the publisher’s prefatorial apparatus to support particular editions throughout almost two-and-a-half centuries of the novel’s existence. Illustrated with reproductions of covers, frontispieces, and title pages, the book also provides an illuminating insight into the role of Evelina’s visual representation in its history as a marketable commodity, highlighting the existence of editions targeting various segments of the book market: from the upper-middle-class to mass-readership. The first comprehensive and fully updated bibliography of English and translated editions, adaptations, and reprints of Evelina published in 13 languages and scripts appears in an appendix.

Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 5 of 5 (Classic Reprint)
Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 5 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-21

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781334630323

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Excerpt from Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 5 of 5 Miss Burney did for the English novel what Jeremy Collier did for the English drama; and she did it in a better way. She first showed that a tale might be written in which both the fashionable and the vulgar life of London might be exhibited with great force, and with broad comic humour, and which yet should not contain a single line inconsistent with rigid morality, or even with virgin delicacy. She took away the reproach which lay on a most useful and delightful species of composition. She vindicated the right of her sex to an equal share in a fair and noble province of letters. Several aecom plished women have followed in her track. At present, the povels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honourably distinguished by fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. Several among the s cessors of Madame d'arblay have equalled her; two, we think, have surpassed her. But the fact that she has been surpassed gives her an additional claim to our respect and gram; for, in truth we owe to her not only Evelina, Cc cilia and Camilla, but also Mansfield Park and the Absentee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.